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generative semantics
generative semantics n (Linguistics) (functioning as singular) a school of semantic theory based on the doctrine that syntactic and semantic structure are of the same formal nature and that there is a single system of rules that relates surface structure to meaning. Compare interpretive semantics gen′erative seman′tics n. a theory of grammar holding that the deep structure of a sentence is equivalent to its semantic representation, from which the surface structure can be derived using one set of rules rather than separate semantic and syntactic rules. |